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July 2022
13 Jul 2022 Why the RBNZ hiked the OCR - again
13 Jul 2022 OCR up: What the RBNZ said
13 Jul 2022 House sales battered
13 Jul 2022 Zip lowers on lending to tradies
12 Jul 2022 Spark shares jump after selling 70% of TowerCo for $900m
12 Jul 2022 AIA teams up with online platform
12 Jul 2022 Next set of CCCFA changes complex
12 Jul 2022 Second tranche of CCCFA reform due out of the end of this month
12 Jul 2022 A cluster of ‘modest’ accounts: what KiwiSaver balances really look like
11 Jul 2022 Shares drop as investors wait for RBNZ decision
11 Jul 2022 New mortgage lending rises after plunge
11 Jul 2022 Another 50 point OCR rise forecast
11 Jul 2022 Guilty plea in mortgage fraud case
11 Jul 2022 Bank economists agree on another 50 point hike in the OCR
11 Jul 2022 FMA plans to crack down on greenwashing
08 Jul 2022 Eroad shares pick up speed for second day in a row
08 Jul 2022 New Head of Enforcement at FMA
08 Jul 2022 House prices now dropping rapidly as correction kicks in
08 Jul 2022 Fidelity Life boosts non-medical limits as part of new underwriting package
07 Jul 2022 Eroad shares on the road to recovery
07 Jul 2022 Cigna makes new board appointment
07 Jul 2022 Reaction: Day One CCCFA changes
07 Jul 2022 Cigna New Zealand appoints Stephen Moir to its Board
07 Jul 2022 Investors on the back foot
07 Jul 2022 New appointment at PWA
07 Jul 2022 New CCCFA rules could lead to fictitious budgets
07 Jul 2022 Two futures for income protection cover
07 Jul 2022 More homework from the FMA for those offering investment advice
06 Jul 2022 Adviser offers digital home loan service
06 Jul 2022 Adviser launches digital home loan service
06 Jul 2022 Are we at the turning point?
05 Jul 2022 Strong day on sharemarket
05 Jul 2022 New lending option for advisers
05 Jul 2022 Prospa offers new loan option
05 Jul 2022 Why rapid advances in medicine and technology are pushing up premiums for life and health cover
05 Jul 2022 Auckland house sales plummet but prices defy expectations
04 Jul 2022 NZ shares start second half of the year more positively
04 Jul 2022 Cigna now Chubb
04 Jul 2022 Rental supply spikes while demand dwindles
02 Jul 2022 Fisher sells Master Trust business to Lifetime
01 Jul 2022 [The Wrap] The redemption of Moses
01 Jul 2022 NZ stock market finishes first half of 2022 down 18%
01 Jul 2022 UniMed picks up book of business
01 Jul 2022 Vocational Retraining - Does it work?
01 Jul 2022 Former AIA chief heads up Resolution Life
01 Jul 2022 Wealthpoint to drive growth for insurance and lending advisers
June 2022
30 Jun 2022 Eroad shares fall to all-time low
30 Jun 2022 Westpac third bank so suspend lending; How is it impacting you?
30 Jun 2022 Westpac third bank so suspend lending
30 Jun 2022 Mortgage cover in the ascendant
30 Jun 2022 Not if, but when construction starts falling
30 Jun 2022 Conduct laws finally real
30 Jun 2022 Controversial and coming soon, but how broad is COFI’s reach?
29 Jun 2022 NZ shares fall as market rally evaporates
29 Jun 2022 Flint sparks its first CEO
29 Jun 2022 ASB joins ANZ and stops low deposit loans; Loan Market loses CEO
29 Jun 2022 Loan Market CEO moves on
29 Jun 2022 Housing market top of list for severe price crash
29 Jun 2022 ASB joins ANZ in LVR cuts
29 Jun 2022 Rules for massive residential intensification only weeks away
29 Jun 2022 Pathfinder big winner
29 Jun 2022 Advisers face steeper PI premiums, free run-off cover disappears
28 Jun 2022 Sleepy day for NZ shares
28 Jun 2022 All the winners
28 Jun 2022 NZHL gets a new chief executive
28 Jun 2022 Former Westpac exec to head up NZHL
27 Jun 2022 OBITUARY: Controversial adviser dies at 80
27 Jun 2022 NZ sharemarket rebounds with Wall Street rally
27 Jun 2022 Mortgage advisers have to act like counsellors
27 Jun 2022 FMA sets its sights on cyber security: a new to-do list for embattled financial services providers
26 Jun 2022 New Code Committee members finally revealed
24 Jun 2022 Could 2022 get better from here, it’s certainly hard to get worse
23 Jun 2022 Index heavyweights do the heavy lifting
23 Jun 2022 New dealer group option; Your networking event and product launch invite
23 Jun 2022 New player enters mortgage group space
23 Jun 2022 Patchy housing market shows widespread falls as well as some increases
23 Jun 2022 COFI bill plans further crackdown on sales incentives
22 Jun 2022 NZ shares fall as Eroad near all-time low
22 Jun 2022 Sustainable PIEs on menu
22 Jun 2022 Banks switch focus to refinancing
22 Jun 2022 Adviser calls on David Clark to name new appointees to code committee
21 Jun 2022 NZ shares rise as recession fears ease
21 Jun 2022 CoFI changes welcomed; ANZ takes the rates lead
21 Jun 2022 CoFI bill changes welcomed by advisers body
21 Jun 2022 Questions over new office construction
21 Jun 2022 Interest rates go higher
21 Jun 2022 The income equation: why the bond+equity solution still adds up
21 Jun 2022 Lower returns for longer; Advisers will have to work harder
20 Jun 2022 NZ shares flat as recession risk puts investors off trading
20 Jun 2022 Finzo adds compliance manager
20 Jun 2022 REVEALED: New conduct rules
20 Jun 2022 Govt softens conduct requirements for advisers
20 Jun 2022 Massey moves forward from Avanti
20 Jun 2022 Financial Services Council defends KiwiSaver after criticism
20 Jun 2022 Mortgage Express adds new adviser
20 Jun 2022 FNZ numbers revealed
17 Jun 2022 Cautious trading follows week of share market turmoil
17 Jun 2022 Pressure on interest rates to ease - possibly
17 Jun 2022 Pressure on interest rates to ease - possibly
17 Jun 2022 Twenty reasons not to abandon the housing market
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Latest Comments
When a night is not a night
Nice commentary. I agree it's pretty pedantic to look at hours rather than nights. And I have had claims where hours rather than nights have been used to determine payment of this benefit. My experience with this has been mixed, with some insurers considering discharge and readmission to be the same admission paying a contiguous claim. With others being a bit pedantic. Given my knowledge and history with product changes, I can only conclude that someone has complained about the definition(s) which have driven changes tightening the response. End of the day the insurers are under pressure with claims, and we have seen this benefit removed with Southern Cross and moved into an optional area with Partners Life. So it's no longer a given there will be a response from policies for this either.
2 weeks ago Jon-Paul Hale
FNZ to build advice platform for FirstCape
That seems an awfully long-winded way to say FirstCape will be adopting its newly acquired Consilium FNZ platform. The’ve done the heavy lifting so why not acknowledge that. Or are they really going to start from scratch?
2 weeks ago John Milner
Stobo resigns FMA chair after investigation
@Amused – I wouldn’t feel too bad about the use your comment was put to. And the fact Stobo wasn’t on the Indi board at the time of his resignation doesn’t make the conflict less problematic. I have no view on whether Stobo fell victim to a “witch hunt". I’m not sure that Barrass’ view represents a change, on her part, of how she viewed the Indi conflict. It is possible (as I am suggesting) that the FMA never had a proper view of the conflict in the first place. Liam Mason’s initial assessment that the conflict was unremarkable was flawed, in my opinion. "Good and effective management of conflicts of interest is particularly important for a Crown regulator. If conflicts are not recognised, acknowledged and managed appropriately, they can quickly undermine the integrity of officials, the organisation’s decisions, and public and business confidence in the integrity of the organisation." (Kirsty P McDonald ONZM QC, 2022) The identification and management of the Stobo/Indi conflict needs to be understood in the context of shortcomings identified in the report (cited above) following a 2022 independent review into the FMA’s management of the Rob Everett/Booster COI. There’s a theme emerging. I wonder what the Stobo/Indi Conflict Mitigation Record shows (if anything). There’s nothing in Aldred KC’s report that would suggest this was provided to her. Liam Mason emailed Stobo on 12th July 2025, expressing concern that Indi was using Stobo as a marketing prop. This suggests mitigation strategies were not put in place for this entirely foreseeable risk back at the time the conflict was first disclosed.
2 weeks ago Paul Flood
Sharesies opens advice offering to New Zealand investors
Why did they add cash and bonds into there High Growth portfolio? I'm so confused.
3 weeks ago my realname
Stobo resigns FMA chair after investigation
@ paul flood – thanks for making me aware of this. I stand by my comment that nobody in a regulatory role should ever be sitting on the board of a provider which that regulator is charged with monitoring. Do I feel a bit stink now that my comment on Good Returns was used by the FMA as part of a “witch hunt” to remove Mr Stobo as FMA Chair? Of course I do. Mr Stobo was not sitting on the board of any financial services provider monitored by the FMA at the time he offered his resignation to Commerce Minister Cameron Brewer. Interesting how things changed below from Mr Stobo’s initial appointment as the FMA chair “The FMA has a rigorous conflicts of interest process for board members to identify potential interests and to ensure that board members comply with their obligations under the Crown Entities Act. The FMA maintains a list of members’ interests. This is updated in advance of each board meeting and board members confirm its accuracy at the meeting. Mr Stobo’s interest in The Independent Mortgage Company (Indi) has been disclosed under this process.” To - “When I interviewed Ms Barrass (FMA chief executive) she told me that she considered the role with Indi was “heavily conflicted” and that the matter was a serious one for the FMA because We [the FMA] need to be beyond reproach because the inappropriate management of conflicts is not just a matter of regulatory requirements”. None of the smears against Mr Stobo have been upheld in this report by Wendy Aldred KC. Questions need to be asked by our politicians as to what has happened here. It appears people employed at Government agencies in Wellington who have a different political view to that of the public service should be cautious now when expressing their opinions. Political neutrality is sighted by KC Wendy Aldred as to why Mr Stobo should resign and yet she is part of Health Coalition Aotearoa which is a a coalition of member organisations committed to closing the health prevention gap in Aotearoa by advocating for Te Tiriti-led, evidence-based, policies. Does anyone think that Wendy Aldred KC can be considered “politically neutral” with her report prepared for the FMA?
3 weeks ago Simon Rule